Saturday, November 2, 2013

(Annapolis, MD)- For their second consecutive weekend, the Eastport YC is hosting
yet another East Coast Championships on the choppy, muddy waters of the
Chesapeake Bay. This time is the J/24’s turn to experience the superior
race management and awesome hospitality of EYC. The thirty-one teams
registered will have their hands full with not just with top teams
sailing the regatta, but the rough winds forecast for the three-day long
event. With Friday offering near gale storm conditions with 15-25 kts
southerly breezes, Saturday providing benign, sunny, lightish WNW winds
and Sunday bringing strong 15-20 kt northerlies, the local tacticians
will be matching wits with top national talent to bring “home the bacon”
(e.g. podium silverware).

J/24
Fleet 8 in Annapolis is proud to have the Hillman Focused Advantage
Fund (HCMAX) as the title sponsor for the 2013 J/24 East Coast
Championship; this year’s partnership will expand on the success of the
recently revamped J/24 East Coast Championship making it better than
ever. Plus, they will be offering lots of great “swag”.

Who
will be top dogs at the end of this shoot-out across the water? That
will be a tough call since so many championship level teams are sailing
that have all grabbed their fair share of silverware over time. Surely
one of the top boats will be Mike Ingham’s Rochester, NY gang on USA
5443; but not far off their pace will be Tony Parker’s BANGOR PACKET
from Annapolis; Al Constants’s BLITZ from Locust Valley, NY; John
Poulson’s St Petersburg, FL team sailing MURDER INC.; Paul van
Ravensway’s local Washington, DC team aboard MILLENNIUM FALCON; Pete
Kassal’s local Annapolis crew sailing SPACEMAN SPIFF; Robbie Brown’s USA
799 team from St Petersburg, FL; Travis Odenbach’s gang from Rochester,
NY sailing the famously infamous HONEY BADGER; and finally an even more
incredibly famously infamous team from Newport, RI led by Will Welles
and Tim Healy onboard COUGAR. Finally, the long distance traveler award
surely goes to Trevor Boyce from Hamilton, Bermuda, sailing NO SKIRT
REQUIRED with a cast of characters that includes well-known photographer
Tim Wilkes from Rochester, NY. For more J/24 East Coast Championship sailing information